29.4423, Calls: Altaic; Sino-Tibetan; Historical Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Typology/USA

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Subject: 29.4423, Calls: Altaic; Sino-Tibetan; Historical Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Typology/USA

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Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2018 14:24:07
From: Keith Slater [keith.slater at email.und.edu]
Subject: Language Contact in the Amdo Sprachbund

 
Full Title: Language Contact in the Amdo Sprachbund 

Date: 12-Jul-2019 - 13-Jul-2019
Location: Grand Forks, North Dakota, USA 
Contact Person: Keith Slater
Meeting Email: keith.slater at gradschool.und.edu
Web Site: http://amdosprachbund.silund.org/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics; Sociolinguistics; Typology 

Language Family(ies): Altaic; Sino-Tibetan 

Call Deadline: 15-Jan-2019 

Meeting Description:

Note: Conference Dates Changed to 12 July, 2019 - 13 July, 2019

Language contact phenomena in the Amdo Sprachbund (AS) came to the attention
of the international linguistics community with Charles Li's 1983 paper
''Languages in Contact in Western China.'' First referred to as a Sprachbund
by Dwyer (1995), the AS has continued to inspire a large number of studies of
contact-induced linguistic changes; indeed, the vast majority of
linguistically-oriented publications about the region concern themselves with
contact phenomena. Claims have ranged from the mundane to the outlandish: a
scholar once summed up published descriptions of Wutun by labelling it a
''language that should not be.'' Fortunately, an increasing number of
synchronic descriptions have clarified the major structural features of many
of the participating languages--and Wutun turns out (Sandman 2016) to be a
possible language after all!

Nonetheless, our knowledge of the AS remains very incomplete. This conference
will bring together specialists with the aim of developing a clearer overall
picture of the mechanisms and effects of language contact in the Bodic,
Mongolic, Sinitic and Turkic varieties which participate in the Sprachbund. We
are interested both in historical processes and in processes which are
currently ongoing. 

Language Contact in the Amdo Sprachbund will be held 12-13 July 2019, at the
University of North Dakota in Grand Forks, USA.


2nd Call for Papers:

We invite abstracts for papers about languages of the Amdo Sprachbund
concerning the following (or related) themes:

- Descriptions (historical or synchronic) of contact-induced changes in
phonology, morphology, syntax, or lexicon
- Typological outcomes of contact phenomena (e.g. Li 1984)
- Sociolinguistic and sociological perspectives on the interaction of
linguistic communities (papers in these areas should include a linguistic
focus)
- Mechanisms of language contact (e.g. codeswitching, bilingualism, shift)
- Examinations of how Amdo Sprachbund contact processes may inform, clarify,
and/or revise models of language contact

We will allow 30 minutes for each presentation and 15 minutes for discussion.
The conference will be fairly small, with a maximum of 15 participants.
Presentations may be in English or Mandarin.

Abstracts should be no more than 1 page. An individual may submit multiple
single-authored or jointly-authored papers; however, the organizers will
attempt to include as many individuals as possible.

Contact e-mail for abstracts and conference information: Keith dot Slater at
und dot edu
Organizers: Keith W. Slater, M. Heather Fried, Robert Fried

Notice of acceptance of abstracts will be given by 1 February 2019.

The organizers have an agreement with the open-access journal Himalayan
Linguistics to produce a special issue of the journal devoted to the Amdo
Sprachbund. Following this conference, the organizers and the HL editors will
begin a peer review process to consider papers for inclusion in that special
issue.

References:

Dwyer, Arienne. 1995. From the Northwest China Sprachbund: Xúnhuà Chinese
dialect data. Yuen Ren Society Treasury of Chinese Dialect Data, vol. 1,
143-182.

Li, Charles N. 1983. Languages in Contact in Western China. Papers in East
Asian Languages, vol. 1, 31-51.

Li, Charles N. 1987. From verb-medial analytic language to verb-final
synthetic language: a case of typological change. Proceedings of the Tenth
Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, 307-323.

Sandman, Erika. 2016. A Grammar of Wutun. Helsinki: University of Helsinki
Faculty of the Arts. (Ph.D. Dissertation.)




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